New Reason to boycott Walmart

Why does he &/or the rest of them even care. Here's an idea - you don't like same sex marriage, don't marry a gay man and let everyone else be.

This is the type of thing we have grown to expect from Walmart. It's so sad because gay people absolutely are prominent in Walmart's hierarchy - even though most are probably closeted. Walmart is a very conservative organization and Duke's position on same sex marriage reflects the attitudes of the conservative element in Arkansas. Just over the border here in North Texas we too have our neocons. Sad.

well does this come as a shock to anybody? its bloody walmart for crying out load. Last time i looked in on them it felt like a 1950's flashback.

Gee, another reason for me to put on my list as to why I avoid China slave labor mart.

One day I hope Walmart has the gravitas to become a company we can admire instead of one that we are forced to loath. How can we respect an organization that has so little regard for people. I know so many people who shop at Walmart and refuse to understand the harm they do to people. So they perpetuate the evil. They have a considerable record of mistreating people - so much so that Germany finally gave them the 'heave-ho', they support nations like China that are poisoning Americans because of their lack of regard for people, and of course Walmart gives slim lipservice to environmental concerns. Their rebranding efforts serve to reinforce the adage, 'you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear'. In this case the comparison is an insult to the poor sow.

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And the people who want a Wal Mart society are always the ones whining about "entitlements" but they love the entitlements that big corps like Wal Mart get. Wal Mart gets to shuffle its employees onto Medicare so that the rest of us can pay what it should be paying in health care.

Wal Mart gets stupid towns to pay for off ramps from expressways and then the citizens pick up the tax bill for that, while Wal Mart runs small business out of town. Wal Mart's gross obscene greedy profits leave the town and go to Arkansas every night. Even the local bankers get screwed by China Wal Mart.

Wal Mart is causing pain and suffering in China where their slave labor is housed in stinking hot facilities made of metal with no running water and no tolit facilities. Wal Mart contributes to human sufferring all over the world so some peopel can buy cheap toxic garbage from them. Their toys contain lead that harm our children, and their garments have the sufferring and blood of oppressed workers on them plus fibers that contain dyes not tested in the USA.

Wal Mart is what the Republican elite want for the rest of America. On CNBC one day they even said they wanted a Wal Mart America. Why? Cheap labor and a 2 class system. No upward mobility becaue no one can afford college on such wages or ever rise above their station.
Everyone should shop elsewhere if they can. I know some towns now only have a Wal Mart because they ran all the other businesses out.

This petition was not about gay marriage, it was about whether gay people should have the right to adopt. I mean come on. We really aren't bad people. In fact most of us a very good parents.

One theme in the movie involved a gay man who was acting as a child care giver. As I remember it he was a grad student who needed the money, loved kids and was a decent guy in the movie. The child's mother found a bloody pair of underwear. Seems the gay sitter had been cleaning up and had taken an old pair of the child's undies that had worn out, washed them and used them as a rag. He had cut himself and blood was present on the undies. What amazed me is what ensued. The women assumed that the gay man had molested her child. But then she discovered that no indeed, he had cut his hand. But not after she insulted the man, hurt his feelings and very nearly had him put in jail she discovered he hadn't done anything other than take care of her child - and very well it seemed. That was about 20 years ago. I'm not so sure things have changed.

The majority of molestation crimes are committed by heterosexual men. That is statistics. Parents can prevent much by educating their children about what is proper for a person to do and what is improper and to teach them to stay away from strangers and not talk to them.

We hear about the French and how they look down their noses at the US for their intollerance to gays.
Yet France does not allow gays to adopt.
One of the most ridiculous things ever.
WalMart = made in China, probably full of lead or other toxic substances baubles and shiney objects.

Why is it that people have to be hetero to be a good parent?

Anyone have an answer to that?

is it just me, or does he look a lot like Dr. Evil in that picture??

I think a little deeper thinking is needed here.
Duke is WalMart CEO not their spiritual or moral activist.
There is no evidence that WalMart discriminates against gays or for that matter any other group. All you have to do is go to one to see that they hire from all segments of society; very young, very old, all colors sizes and shapes, lots of handicapped. One gets the feeling that for WalMart inclusiveness is good business.
Regardless, the WalMart is successful is because of low prices. A family can save a lot of money when they buy their basics there.
Perhaps the reason some folks are wary of gay adoption is because they worry more about the kids than the feelings of the adults. No not molestation. Kids need to be mainstream. In my first-hand experience alternate lifestyle parents they are not always able/willing to do this.
One way or the other, watch your language! Intolerance do not beget tolerance.

Wal-mart does discriminate against gays, lesbians and transgendered employees. They do not offer same-sex domestic partnership benefits, they do not allow short term leave for surgical treatments for transgendered people, they do not offer gender identity diversity training, they do not offer any recognition to domestic partnerships in states that do not require it by law. In short, Wal-mart is behind the the curve on LGBT issues.

Walfart is an ugly monster.

Well, this finally does it for me. Wal-Mart is history, and I vow never to shadow their doors (anywhere again)! Sure, I have to pay higher prices at my local grocery, gas, etc. but at least they know me by my name, and they don't discriminate against me for being gay, nor do they treat my neighbors any differently for being who they are (whatever that may be). I live in a small rural Southern community, and usually drive 25+ miles to Wal-Mart for one stop shopping and price, but it's time to put my money where my mouth is, and out of Wal-Mart's pocket.

It is so peculiar, that gay couples can get legal civil unions (gay marriage) in Eureka Springs, AR, but yet Bentonville, AR is the head quarters of Wal-Mart.

Just today, Maine in the U.S., declared gay marriages legal in the state, whereas California just voted it down by the heavy lobbying of the Hispanic community by the Mormons. What's up with that?

I'm a gay man, but I don't believe in gay marriage, nor do I want an amendment to our constitution concerning marriage. I simply want the same legal rights every citizen of these United States should have and share...civil rights and equal rights for all US citizens regardless of race, sex, or who is lying in the privacy of my bedroom.

I don't shop at WalMart- but not because this guy rejects the gays attempts to fundamentally change marriage and redefine it.....it's because they screw American workers, demanding companies cut costs by outsourcing to China, and shutter American factories......I don't want or need a bath towel made in Brazil, I don't want a can opener made in China- there are plenty of companies here that make those items, yet WalMart refuses to support them. Easier to make a huge profit on some cheap Chinese crap, rather than quality made American goods.

Well, I just have 2 words to say, "Wal-mart Sux!"

I hate everything they're about. They have the ability to pay their employee's better, but yet many of their employee's are still having to apply for government assistance. I hate that they have driven away our local "mom and pop" shops, convenient stores, grocery stores. and even pharmacies. We will never see the day where we can walk in our local photo shop and get our pictures- and we don't have a clue what our pharmacist name is anymore. I feel that with every Wal-mart that is built, an entire city loses its identity; nearly every town across America is stamped with all the same corporations and franchise's.

But all you God-hating, commie, dope smoking queers are trying to indoctrinate our children into the gay lifestyle right? If you would just go back in the closet and let us give our children the God-fearing, fascist, pill taking sexually oppressed indoctrination into the Christian lifestyle they need.....

And that picture needs the caption "mua-hahaha"

thats what i wanna be! a typical hypocritical christian...!

(not really)

JJDeboner?

Please, complete the sentence.

"Regardless, the WalMart is successful is because of low prices"

...and a total disregard over whether it's business model results in the disemployment of massive numbers of Americans, the shuttering of thousands of small businesses [meaning the majority of job generators in our economy] and the handy propping up of the world's worst remaining and brutal Communist regime.

Why leave out so much of the truth?

WalMart, and the philosophy behind it isn't remotely conservative. Typically conservatism is not directed to making other countries rich. That's the biggest joke of all. WalMart has gained a reputation as a corporate predator and is seen as destructive in every dimension of American life it touches.

Slave jobs, slave wages, micromanaged corporate lives, and a tremendous, deliberate degrading of American economic power to satisfy the profits of one company? That's conservative to you?

Compare an Ikea to a WalMart. The difference in design, quality, service, price to value, and product reliability is obvious.

What also is obvious are the growing numbers of communities which now refuse to allow WalMart even to set up shop.

Rethink your sales pitch. No takers here.

A few days ago I submitted a comment that included a suggestion that WalMart was no so bad.
Since then I have received many replies to the contrary. Many of the points were compelling.
I will rethink my position and search for more information.

See, the system works!

JJDeboner,

A point well taken.

What's going at Current, unfortunately, is not being advanced with the same open mindedness, grace and generosity as yours, where it counts most - at the political level.

Instead we appear to be witnessing a turf war between relatives.

It's Nicki and Willy and Georgie, all WW1 cousins, writing elegant missives about a bright future of hope and reconciliation, while their armies attempt to annihilate each other.

We have the Dems, GOP, and Libertarians all determined to restore the family business, but adamant and obstructive about who says how.

In no way is a financial gem (and prize) like WalMart's favor to be toyed with. The risk is not politically acceptable.

And what is WalMart's incentive to reform on behalf of America's consumers and unemployed? Zip.

The part where the system in fact will work, is pure Capitalism.

When more communities refuse to let WalMart set up shop and as corporate America hears the message loud an clear, "Hey! You want to get rich selling Chinese products? While exporting US Industries and jobs? Move your ass over there, or start to support your country. We've had enough of this ride."